@futurebird I once mentored a learning Python workshop and we wasted an hour trying to install it on windows and figured out McAfee was blocking python.exe. The whole experience makes me irrationally angry to this dayThanks for the tip about thonny, gonna be passing it on!
@futurebird in my experience, post editing was a serious problem in every previous internet space where it was provided. Really amazes me it is so rarely a problem here.
@futurebird interesting! I was wearing a dress shirt the other day and was wondering if there’s any way to get it to not puff out and have to be retucked constantly. Thank you for this information!
@bruceiv I mean this is kind of obviously true. Just stopping people on the streets is a boneheaded way to get people to come to your church. I would sincerely love it if they went to some NYC churches as I think it might make their heads spin a little. They could go to Abyssinian in Harlem or All Souls on the Upper East, or even right to Trinity. They are acting like they are visiting the got damn moon.
@futurebird At the other end of the scale are these tiny metallic Fairy Moths (family Adelidae), like this one I saw in Singapore. Only a few mm in length, and look like tiny fairies in flight.And I still haven't figured out why they have such long antennas. On iNat [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/274484402 ].
@futurebird well, he was no Maria Sibylla Merian, but he was good, and an important historical figure in entomology. anyway, here's the link https://popenoe.org/cvriley/prints/insect-orders
@futurebird I'm guessing diversity of leafcutter ants is also correlated with warmth and humidity? After all, both fungi and insect diversity are also correlated with warmth and humidity.
@GamesMissed I found this in our library and it is a wordless masterpiece! Only a “children’s book” in the sense that children will be able to enjoy it as much as adults.
@vivtek I mean I sympathize— but I was able to learn to identify all NZ ants in an afternoon— my progress learning the ants of NYC is still ongoing— there are just so many more ants.But I could see how being immersed in the ants local to you it’d be annoying to hear “there’s not that much to them” because this is never really true if you look.
Even his fantasy of "winning" is bad. Who would want to be vindicated by AI? It loves everything you feed it. It's a flattery machine. And it can only recognize broad patterns in text and celebrates the normal, in the statistical sense. It loves the derivative. And generates peak derivative works. I bet if I fed some of my armchair notions about ant evolution to an AI it'd think I was a genius. But, that's not science it's science fiction!
@futurebird Good thinking. If we could find Māui to help, that might be possible. Legend has it that he's moved the South Island-Te Wai Pounamu about before, using it as a waka for fishing.https://eng.mataurangamaori.tki.org.nz/Support-materials/Te-Reo-Maori/Maori-Myths-Legends-and-Contemporary-Stories/Maui-and-the-giant-fish
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